W.C.T.U.
ANNUAL CONVENTION
[Per Press Association.]
INVERCARGILL, Feb. 16. At tlie Women’s Christian Temperance Union Convention to-day, attention was called to the grave danger incurred by young girls and boys promenading the streets at night. A resolution was carried calling upon Government to introduce legislation dealing with this.
A resolution was also passed calling attention to a discrepancy between the punishment meted out to sly-grog sellers in licensed and no-licensed districts, the maximum penalty in the former being twelve months with hard labor and in a- no-license district three months without, hard labor. Invitations for the Convention for 1911 were received from Dunedin, Ivaiapoi, Greymoutli, and New Plymouth, that of the last-named being accepted. The Convention closed at 1.20 p.m.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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120W.C.T.U. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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